23645, 23644
EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH E. M. SKLYANSKY

[1918, November, no later than 26]

Could something be done concerning the matter of Dauге's son¹ (this son is in the military aviation school²)? Dauге says that his son was falsely accused of White Guard activity and on that account (??!!) was expelled from the school—

Appoint by order of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs a commission necessarily composed of Party members and experienced people? I have no data whatsoever, only suspicions in view of the bad company he was in. Removing him from this milieu, I believe, will completely cure him.

But in what bad company? with whom? when? where was he? for how long?

I don't know the details, except what the father told me, and this is evidently only his anxieties concerning his son's fellow aviators. I believe that he is simply apolitical and will be an excellent technician, if only given the opportunity. Previously the father, by his desire to keep him away from the dangers of aviation, was spoiling his relations with his son.

¹ E. M. Sklyansky — Deputy People's Commissar for Military Affairs.
² P. G. Dauге — one of the founders of the Latvian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, historian, publicist, doctor of medicine. In 1918 — People's Commissar of Enlightenment of Latvia, subsequently — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR.
³ From August 14, 1918, there exists a directive from V. I. Lenin to the school section of the Administration of the Air Fleet concerning the enrollment of M. P. Dauге in the Moscow Aviation School. Prior to this, he completed courses at the Moscow Higher Technical School, where he demonstrated great enthusiasm for aviation and flying. Since the flight school admitted primarily Communists, the father of M. P. Dauге turned personally to V. I. Lenin with a request to help enroll his son in the aviation school, which M. P. Dauге successfully completed and courageously fought on the fronts of the civil war (see Zharov F. I. Deeds of Red Pilots, Moscow, 1963, pp. 24–25).

TELEGRAM TO TULA TO SUKHOPAROV

November 28, 1918
Tula Partnership Sukhoparov
Copy
To the Provincial Revolutionary Tribunal

Submit the fine immediately. Communicate a copy of your complaint to the Provincial Revolutionary Tribunal, in accordance with the law, so that the Provincial Revolutionary Tribunal may at once submit its conclusion to the Council of People's Commissars.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

LENIN MISCELLANY

¹ This telegram is a reply to a telegram from Sukhoparov of November 28, 1918, to the Council of People's Commissars with a request to suspend the arrest and collection of the fine pending resolution of the complaint submitted to the Council of People's Commissars. On Sukhoparov's telegram there is a note by V. I. Lenin: "to the archive. Answered 28/XI" (Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU).

LETTER TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV

November 29², 1918
Dear Comrade Shlyapnikov!

I received your letter of November 21.

I receive your telegrams, it seems, all of them, and I am helping. Don't be nervous. It will always be possible to fulfill only part of what is requested³.

It is impossible to travel abroad now. I deeply regret that you have fallen ill. You must rest and rest. Prepare for yourself a group of deputies in case you nonetheless have to leave — but try to recover and stay longer.

My regards! Your Lenin

/XII. I congratulate you on the successes of the North Caucasian Army. Once more I ask you, don't be nervous. We can help you little now, but we will try to expand assistance⁴.

Your Lenin

¹ At this time A. G. Shlyapnikov was Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caspian-Caucasian Front.
² On this day V. I. Lenin did not send the letter, but informed A. G. Shlyapnikov by telegram that he was sending the letter by courier and was forwarding all requests to the appropriate departments.
³ In his letter to V. I. Lenin of November 21, A. G. Shlyapnikov requested the sending to the Southern Front of 5,000 bayonets, 20 guns, and other technical means, regarding the necessity of energetic support in connection with the possible threat from Turkey.
⁴ V. I. Lenin received on December 2 information about the successful offensive of the 11th (North Caucasian) Army from a telegram by the front commander. On the same day V. I. Lenin inquired of V. I. Nevsky what had been done regarding A. G. Shlyapnikov's request, who was insistently demanding the sending to Astrakhan of shunting and high-speed locomotives.